Charting the Future: Gregg Jantz
Recently, we sent you a video featuring Dr. Les Parrott, one of the world’s foremost experts on relationships. Today, I am happy to share a testimony from Dr. Gregory Jantz, a leading authority on depression, anxiety, and addiction. As founder of The Center: A Place of Hope, he operates a veritable house of miracles, where people find their way out of trouble and back into lives of hope and productivity through a multidisciplinary approach that cares for the whole person, instead of just the symptoms. You may have seen him addressing America’s anxiety epidemic on CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, CNN, or other media outlets, where he frequently expresses his professional expertise in a way that would make any Christian proud. He offers a powerful model of what we seek to produce in our students at Northwest—uncompromising Christianity engaged deeply in professional practice in a pluralistic society that needs Jesus.
I’ll let him tell his own story, but there is a reason why he has chosen Northwest University to seek well-trained mental health professionals for his clinic, as well as for his own son’s education.
Northwest University puts Jesus first in training counselors and psychologists in our Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and our Doctor of Psychology program. As our website states—and as Dr. Jantz emphasizes at The Center—our professors teach our students how to treat the whole person: socially, psychologically, spiritually, and culturally. We do that by integrating Christian faith deeply into the fields of psychology and counseling.
Integration of faith and professional learning without compromising either presents a serious challenge, but precisely the one that every Christian faces every day. At Northwest, we take the challenge head-on. It’s our calling and our mission. Perhaps there has never been a more difficult time to do such work. So, thank you for supporting us in it!